(xún) - seek, search in Mandarin
xúnTraditional: 寻
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Translation
seek, search
Word origin
An ideographic character whose older forms show hands reaching out, together with 寸 (a hand used for measuring), to search and measure, hence to seek or to search.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 又/彐 (hand) + 寸 (hand, measure)
Stroke order
寻
Examples
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He is searching for an answer.
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Looking for what was lost.
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We searched everywhere for him.
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He searched everywhere for the person.
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She found a good job.
寻 (xún) means seek or search, paired with 找 in 寻找 (xún zhǎo).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 寻.
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